Category Archives: Platform Cooperativism

Cooperatives are gaining renewed interest as an antidote to our winner-take-all society. But while tech startups have a rich ecosystem to tap into, from accelerators to seed funding to get-big-fast playbooks, new cooperatives are usually left to figure things out on their own. That, says serial coop entrepreneur Greg Brodsky, helps explain why most co-ops […]

Interest is growing in business models that share ownership more broadly, such as worker-owned coops and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). When ownership is concentrated in the hands of a few, little trickles down to workers—one reason wages have stagnated and the wealth gap has widened. Employees that have a stake in a company are also […]

Tech-based startups are drawing on cloud computing, algorithms and mobile phones to create a new on-demand service economy, conjuring help with the press of a button. There’s Uber for transportation, Handy for home cleaning, and Task Rabbit for everything from running errands to assembling furniture. In the process, they are changing the nature of work […]